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A Medical Officer

Debility, Nervous Exhaustion-

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SOCIAL UNREST IN AMERICA.

THE RAPID GROWTH OF RICHES.

(FUOM “TUB TIMES" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN AMERICA)

is intelligible. Until recently life, oven in the larger towns of the Middie West was com paratiraly primitiva and domestic; the standards were still the standards of the earlier days and a certain aimplicity of taste marked the living yen of the "rich. Fortuno hayo, however, been made as rapidly there as in the East; That the possession of riches does not neces-and individual examples of lavish living aro tarily bring contentment either to a nation or necessarily more conspicuous in the smaller to an individual is conspicuously illustrated by communities, and the sudden change to a new the present condition of the United States for plaue of expenditure has there been more in proportion as the American people grows eately folt. The population of nearly all richer, it seeras to grow more discontented, and Western towns has increased rapidly in the it is imposble for one who knows this country past decade, but the character of the towns bad well, on returning to it after an absence of some changed out of all proportion to the increase in years, not to be strack by its extraordinary and population: and the Wost feels that whatevar feverish unrest, Politically it manifests itself is bad in the now conditions is not of its making. in the evolutions and onmater-revolutions blaue Wall-strost for the extravagances of within the ranks of the Republican Party which the speculative main and for the violent led to the catastrophs of the recent elections. fluctuations in values. The panto of 1907 is Industrialy it is evident in the general anasi believed, and rightly, to be purely a Woll- ness in labent circles, so that it is difficult to street affair, and it felt itself seriously wronged speak to a wage earner without hearing com because, in the financial stringenny which fol plaint of the tyranny of capital, or to the head lowed, it was obliged to suffer through no fault of a ocncern employing a large number of men of its own. Individnat business meu of Iowa, without being Lotd of the loosening of the of Minnesote, or of Kawas may be as bold and bonds of authority" and the widening of the speenlative as any New York gamblor and no. gulf between officials and employee, Socially less willing to make money quickly; but oollee The conditions show themselves in many ways, tively the Western agricultural Stat a look on And it is a curious fact that, at least in the ex Wall-street as an alien thing, and it arouse périence of your Correspondent, the symptoms their wrath that its corruptis influence should sre mere marked in the West than in the East. pervade, as it is supposed to pervade, the affairs The older East is, in any event a little slower of tho nitin, and, even inore, that their own le more. In large cities, also, like New York affairs, the prince of wheat and corn sud of all and Philadelphia, where the social order has been staples, should be subject to its manipulation. long established, the force of new surrents in and that it should be able at one time to plunge public opinion does not show so readily upon the the whole country into depression and at another surface. Certainly it is in the Western towns to fores the price of commodities up to a point of what may be called the second grade that the whereat it becomes difficult for the mass of irritability with the existing conditions is most people to live upon its income. evident and criticism most, "outspoken; and it must be remembered that the particular form of political rololliousness known as insurgency was in its oricin distinctively a Western predzot In attempting to trace the troubles to their

ource one muy diagnose them thus

AMERICA'S FROBLEMS NEW... It would be idle to deny that the majority of the more serious minded Americans regard the present trend of things with grave foreboding, and one may constantly hear prodiotions of the inevitableness of some great social cataclysm, which may take the form of a financial paste worse than ony which the coautry has known or of a terrible clisa war. Much of this des Pondy is but the nsual misgivings of an der Festion, common teall countries and all ages, contemplating the now-fangled and fli ̈hty ways of younger. There presumably never was a time when the world was not going to the dogs. Nor is your Correspondent, after thirty years of familiarity with the American people, in good and bad times alike, inclined to Armpnline with the must gloomy of tha prophets What does seem certain, however, is

the United States is now confronted with. problems which are now, and in the galation of which the experience of other mittoas (even if the American people were ever incbaed to prob by the experience of others) will be of little use. Unreat and discontent in a people dowa-trodden and poverty-stricken would not be much of a novelty, but here we have a people conspicuous ly restive and discontented, while conspicuously well-to-do.

THE WORLD'S COTTON CULTI- VATION.

THE CHANGE IN THE OLD ORDER. The fundamental fact is that many people lave grown rich too quickly. At any time up to the last few yours it raight generally be said that throughout the smaller towns of the country, especially in the West, the rich men, the most prominent citizens were the best men in each community. They might not be the most cultured, but they were men who kid made their own way under hard conditions, who had "grown up with the country" who had built up large businesses by their ora labour and were men of character and integrity. This, of course, was not universally true. Perhaps thero xover was a time when, in almost any Western town, one might not hear, from the younger and more ambitious elements, com- plaints that what this place needs is a fow first-class funerals," the meaning being that the older and richer men were too conservative and failed to nas thair wealth with sufficient freedom for the upbuilding of the community. But the criticism was in itself a justification of the general statement,

The "leading man" did have an inclination to be conservative. They had made their own fortunes slowly by laborious effort; and, when all was said, the public res pented them. Now a now condition has arisen, In the decade from 1897 to 1907, and especi ally in the first fow years of the new century, fortunes were made with great rapidity-in a few weeks, for months, or in a year or two. They wore the result of the extraordinary risa -in all values, and were to a large extent the fruit of bold speculation or at least of speculative methods in the conduct of legitimate business. It was no longer a one of laborious effort and show upbuilding; and the men who this become suddenly rich were of a type different from that of the successful men of the preced ing generation, It was as if chance drew a certain namber of thousands of names almost at random | out of a hat once in every six months for a peysmoly, the United States and Egyp riod of some five years, nad said, "Those men shall be millionaires next sping.". Of course, many fortunes were being made, as they still are being made, by the ame old sound laborions way, and it is not intended to suggest that the men who seemed to be almost bluidly selected by chance were not in truth selected by ristus of gifts of their own. But the qualities requir. in them were not the qualities which ordinarily bring success in times of normal development,

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The report on the "Present Position of Cotton Cultivation," which was presented by Professor Wyndham Dunstan, director of the Imperial Institute, to the Tutornational Con- gress of Tropical Agriculture held in Bressols last May, has been published by the Interna tional Association of Tropical Agricultors and Colovial Development. To it are appended special reports on the present position and pros peets of cotton-growing in each of the netral and potential cotton-producing countries of the world. It is shown that at prosent the sub. troples produce the majority of cotto of the quality required by the Lancashire man facturer

Laformation is given us to the present condition of cotton cultivation in both these countries. Emphasis is laid on the fact that in the United States the industry has bail the great advantagə of the Besistance of an efficient Government Department of Agriculture, whose laboura hare contributed in no measure to surmount the many obstacles with which Ameriew cotton cultiva- tion has had to contend. In Egypt the abeoare of any Government Department of Agriculture to afford guidance to the cultírator and to cox- duetexperiments is deplored, although credit is given for much valuable work to the Khedivia! Agricultural Sosialy. In a footnote it is s'ted that the Egyptian Government has now decided to creats the Agricultural Dopartment which has been so long needed. It is understood that Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, Inspector of Agriculture in West Africa, who in that capacity has been attached to the Imperial Institute, has been obeson as the first Director General of Aprical- ture in Ezypt. The problems to be solved in connection with Egyptian cotton-growio ; ara discussed, ond ref rensa is undo to the great possibilities presented by the Anglo-Eryptian Sudan for bringing a large area of that country under voltou cultivation.

PROSPECTS IN THE BRITISH EMFIRE.

tepu of cotton suitable for

EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE NEWLY-NADI. The newly rich who thus came into their estates, without the long years of stern training in business economies, wore conscious of. no responsibilities, and not unnaturally they began spending, and are sponding to Ray, whit a lavishness formerly undreamed of; and this it is, mom thau anything else, which lins con. tributed to the general increase in extravagance and to the shoot universal raising of the scale of living. But, what is even more important, the attitude of the public towards thom is different from its attitude towards the rich man of the older type. Without saying anything so absurd as that all these norly rich are unworthy of their fortaues or are using them in unworthy ways, ons connot help seeing that the example set by many of them is unodifying. We know that something of the same sort is The prospects of cotton-growing in the occurring also in other countries. Any one British Empire have been discussed in Professor who has spent some time at an English Dunstan's report to Parliament of last year, seaside resort of recent TOBI know In the present raport they are separately con that the most undesirable and disorderly sidered, as is also the position in India. At- class of visitors is to be found among those who tention is again directed to the importance come down in costly motor-tars, but, whereas in of continuous experimental work under Great Britain the anlovely rich are comparatizely Government auspices, since the problem fow, they are bare constantly in evidenco; and in most countries is to establish an there is no doubt that the poople. resent them, acclimatised their manners and extraraganses, intensely. the purposes of the manufacturer Progress, The public fesling can perhaps best be explained though slow, appears to be satisfactory. In by analogy.

Nyasaland success seems to have been achieved, THE CAEEPT-BAG RICK.

aaow cotton, to be known as Nyasaland After the loss of the American, Civil War, Upland," having been established. This cotten in what is known as the Reconstruction Period is said to be in some respects superior to the the defeated South was byer-run by a horde best" American Upland" and to satisfy all the of Northern politicians sent dorn to fill the requirements of Lancashire. The prospects in various oflees and to put the administrativo Uganda are mentioned as of special promies, machinery of a Government in operation again, and the progress made in West Africa is referred They were, of course, looked upon as alienata, attention being drawn to the developments by the white men of the South, and, from the which are likely to oscar through the opening. fact that they presumably carried all their of the Northern Nigerin railway now approach- warldly goods in carpet bags, were generally fug completion Accounts are given of cotton known secarpet-baggers." Though there.

cultivation in French German, Dutch, were undoubtedly excellent men among them Portugues, and Italian Colonies, and also in it was inevitable that there should be many of South America, the South Ben Talunds. Japan, another sort, and the finer feelings of the South and China. Ia Chins it is stated that the were perhaps more outraged by what it was production of a coarse cotton has now reached compelled to go through in the days of Recon 600,000,000lb. annually, and the effects of on struction thuu by the actual defeat in the war. extension of this cultivation are considered. "Carpot-bagger" Wag and remains, a came of A PROMISING FIELD FOK COTTON. contempt and loathing In, let it be granted, less degree, but in much the same spirit, the American people as a whole now looks noon the new the "carpet-ing"-rich : There is some ja ande to Professor Dunstan'e previous report thing of the same feeling that these men have on this subject, and especially to the openings been thrus upon the country by accident, as it were, and from ontside. They are not the ruling class to which the people has been accns tomed. It resents being over-run by them. It recognizes, even if it does not always formulate it in words, that the wrong people are "on top. It is this feeling which is at the root of much of the present discontent. It voices itself politically in the clamour against “special interest

and the supposed influence of the high tariff in helping the rich to get richer and in raising the cost of living,

THE WESTERN POINT OF VIEW That the West should feel and resent the change in conditions eren more than the East

Asia Minor is spoken of xa a promising fold for the growth of cotton of the American Upland," type, and in this connection reference

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